This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the series being covered here wouldn’t exist.
Are you interested in the Five Nights At Freddy’s movie headed our way in a few weeks, but want more details the lore that drives the video games behind it? If so, the film’s new trailer not only gets you up to speed on what’s going on late at night in the abandoned pizza place, but also gives us a better introduction to the animatronic animals (created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop, no less) who have a hankering for murder.
“Ghost children, possessing giant robots, tell me how to stop them?!” asks Peeta Josh Hutcherson’s character, a beleaguered security guard named Mike, in this trailer. The police officer who stops by to get him up to speed isn’t optimistic, but hopefully he’ll be able to battle the animatronics in order to save the young child he unadvisedly brought with him to the job—though it looks like he’ll have to commune with said children and/or avoid getting sliced to death via circular saws to do so.
In addition to Hutcherson (Ultraman, The Hunger Games franchise), the film stars Elizabeth Lail (You, Mack & Rita), Piper Rubio (Holly & Ivy, Unstable), Kat Conner Sterling (We Have a Ghost, 9-1-1), Mary Stuart Masterson (Blindspot, Fried Green Tomatoes), and Matthew Lillard (Good Girls, Scream). The movie comes to us via Blumhouse and Universal Pictures, and is based on the popular video games created by Scott Cawthon, who is also a co-writer on the film with Seth Cuddeback. Emma Tammi directs.
Five Nights at Freddy’s premieres in theaters and on Peacock on October 27, 2023.
